Ashridge, market leaders in protection, control and monitoring equipment, are supplying Hydroguard to help provide 24 hour monitoring to water main assets in London during Crossrail tunnelling and upgrade works.
Hydroguard is an intelligent monitoring system which measures flow, pressure and leak noise data to provide high integrity water trunk and transfer mains data.
Crossrail is the new high frequency, convenient and accessible railway for London and the South East. When the service opens, Crossrail trains will travel from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east via new twin tunnels under central London. It will link Heathrow Airport, the West End, the City of London and Canary Wharf.
Crossrail have chosen Hydroguard to help monitor and protect water pipelines during the vital works required. The units will monitor the water mains before works commence and continue to monitor and review the water network throughout the construction. Any unusual or unexpected change in the data Hydroguard receives will instigate an alarm condition, which will provide the utility control room with the data it requires to take the necessary action.
Angela Gordon Lennox, Business Development Manager at Ashridge said:
"We are delighted to have the opportunity to support this significant project with Crossrail. Hydroguard is a well-established and proven monitoring system, providing a cost effective, battery operated monitoring and alarm system.
“Hydroguard was developed many years ago working closely with a major water company and has evolved over the years in line with customer needs and expectations. The intelligent and flexible nature of Hydroguard has enabled the system to cater for the various critical stages within the Crossrail programme of works and our latest software, Smartchart Web provides an intuitive and easy to analyse platform for graphical viewing of the data.” 
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